Are they worth the effort, meaning are the tunes cool?I would never how to do all that any way.I would just buy the single.I still need to get the album.Can't decide between the cd or the cd/dvd edition.I will get it. >From: "Josh Chasin" >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org >To: "Pop" >Subject: The Macca Bees >Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:53:39 -0400 > >So I bought the two McCartney Chaos and Creation B-sides (why do we still >call them that?) from his website, for a pound a piece (that's a buck >seventy-two), and boy did my woes begin. The files are .wma with DRM, so I >couldn't import them into iTunes (or put them on my iPod); and I couldn't >easily convert them. > >OK, so I opened Wave Recorder, played each file through Windows Media >Player, captured it as .wavs in Wave Recorder, edited out the silences at >the beginning and end (I started up Wave Recorder before starting the >Windows Media Player, and ended after it stopped), raised the volume on the >resulting .wav files to appropriate levels, saved them, and then converted >the new .wavs to MP3 using MusicMatch Jukebox. Oh, and I had to rename the >files too, both on my hard drive and in iTunes. > >Maybe there was an easier way to do all this. But I was so annoyed at the >work I had to do after PAYING for these songs in order to use them, that I >have half a mind to email the MP3s to anyone who asks.